by Greg Beben | Aug 14, 2020 | Meditations
We began this week with Christ’s words: “Take courage; it is I, do not be afraid,” and we end the week with a fitting response, the courageous words of our Blessed Mother: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.” In the documents of Vatican II, Mary is hailed as...
by Greg Beben | Aug 14, 2018 | Meditations
The readings for today’s glorious feast, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, offer us an opportunity to look back into salvation history to an earlier event in Mary’s life, the Visitation, to the “great sign in the sky” in the Book of Revelation, and to the...
by Greg Beben | Aug 14, 2017 | Meditations
Today we celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven, an event we ponder frequently as the fourth glorious mystery of the rosary. On this solemnity, we encounter a profound mystery that the Church has pondered over the centuries. Mary, conceived...